Interesting Facts and Did you knows....
By kenoro
@kenoro (327)
Netherlands
December 22, 2006 8:03am CST
-Do you know what causes waves?
The gravitational force of the moon!
Do you know that if you take a 3 digit number of which the first and last digits are not the same (i.e 333,575 etc), inverse the digits and subtract the smaller one from the larger one. After you have done this inverse them again and add them up. Your number will always be 1089. Why?
For example:
I take 345. I inverse it to get 543. I do this:
543-345 = 198.
Inversed = 891.
So 891 + 198 = 1089!!!
Also want to share some interesting facts?
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33 responses
@shedii (1486)
• India
22 Dec 06
yeh sure, i would love to share some interesting facts...
The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.
A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22lb (10kg).
The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
A house fly lives only 14 days.
A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move it.
Earth is not round; it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.
A green diamond is the rarest diamond.
Traffic jams are nothing new. In 45 BC, Rome banned all vehicles from within the city - and in other cities vehicles, including horses, were allowed only at night... because of traffic jams.
Coffee is the seed of a cherry from the tree genus Coffea
A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.
On average, people can hold their breath for one minute. The world record is seven-and-a-half minutes.
A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
A scientific satellite needs only 250 watts of power, the equivelant used by two hour light bulbs, to operate.
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@scorpius (1792)
• India
22 Dec 06
sure why not.did you know that your left lung is always bigger than your right lung.you cvan get that fact chked out at your doctors.
also did you know that your nose stops growing after the age of 12!
i guess we all get top be pinnochios until then!
have a nice day!
@szevvy (1)
• Australia
23 Dec 06
No, that's correct. Your left lung is slightly smaller as it needs some room to accomodate your heart. As a result, your right lung has 3 lobes, your left only has 2 - so your right lung will be bigger.
The only exception is if you have Situs Inverus, in which case your heart will be on your right side and your right lung will be the smaller one - but there's only a 1 in 10,000 chance of that happening.
@vipul20044 (5793)
• India
22 Dec 06
The reason why you yawn is because there is a lack of oxygen in the air, not because you are tired! A cat has 6 eyelids!! English is the hardest language to learn!!!!
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@Mitraa (3184)
• India
22 Dec 06
Yes..... # Distance of Polestar from us on Earth is 1055 light-years. i.e. the twinkling of this star we see now, has started 1055 years back from it!
# Just before Marcony of Italy did, A.J.C.Bose of India had demonstrated wireless telegraphy in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
# Population of world has not crossed ten to the power ten upto now. i.e. we can express the entire population of world as a power function upto small numbers like ten!
# When asked about his laboratory, Albert Einstein smiled and said, "My laboratory is a sheet of paper, a pen and my mind." As a theoritical scientist in Physics he was worldwide so popular that even a letter addresed to him as, "Prof. Einstein, Somewhere in Europe" was bound to arrive at his place!
# Which is elder between 1 and 2? Certainly it is 1.
Thanks.
@lesterdsa (1638)
• India
22 Dec 06
thats nice real cool Facts i know alot of them but by chance dint have them with me right now , will post them soon anyhow thax for the information/ facts and keep posting more
@ravi19872005 (628)
• India
23 Dec 06
do u know...that in the olden days the goal posts had tape instead of cross bars
@ravi19872005 (628)
• India
23 Dec 06
do u know.....the young pele used to play football with grape fruit or a soak stuffed with paper, before his father brought him a football when he was 6 years old....
@ravi19872005 (628)
• India
23 Dec 06
do u know....the football world cup is the most watched sport on television after the olympics...
@ravi19872005 (628)
• India
23 Dec 06
do u know.....the goalies wore the same uniform as their teammates until 1913 and after that new rules were formed which made it obligatory on the part of the goalkeeper to wore a different dress,
@Lackingstyle (7509)
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23 Dec 06
Ironically I knew them, the last only because my Dad found it entertaining whilst in hhospital and decided to share.
It takes seven penguin beaks to make a penguin biscuit.
@scholastic (728)
• India
23 Dec 06
interesting..and there are so many things in mathematics and the world around us that it would be difficult to keep a track of them..for example did u know that the US presidential elections always happen in a leap year..and there are a lots more..all u need is an inquisitive mind and curiousity..keep exploring
@amitheone (274)
• Philippines
23 Dec 06
I have one to those who likes fishing. Look at the moon and the sun. Have you ever noticed that during sunrise in the morning you see the moon and sun together in the sky and also during sundown, you see the moon and sun together in the sky. This is the best time to fish, as during these events called solunar - Solar(Sun) and Lunar (Moon), fish is unusually wild and active prompting fishermen to fish under these conditions.
@sophiarhoula (38)
• United States
23 Dec 06
Did you know that i didn't know most of this did you know things.
Does that make me a did you know illiterate?
:)